Crossword-Solution: ARGOT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Argot | n. | A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ARGOT | anagram | GATOR, GROAT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARGOT (5)
Boutney, author of _Dictionnaire de l'Argot des Typographes_, is unable to explain after twenty years' search.
Once she heard the client cry, almost scream: "By God! Joe, I thought Claudine had chased him around there to DO me!" And, instantly, followed Louden's voice: "STEADY, HAPPY, STEADY!" The name "Claudine" startled her; and although she had had no comprehension of the argot of Happy Fear, the sense of a mysterious catastrophe oppressed her; she was sure that something horrible had happened.
She had not lived in New York without hearing its argot, and she realised that the exclamation which had appeared delirium to Mrs.
Those who wish to study it as it at present exists can do no better than consult _Les Mémoires de Vidocq_, where a multitude of words in Argot are to be found, and also several songs, the subjects of which are thievish adventures.
But I don't think it was the blind hurry of the people, their argot, and their grand ignorance of things beyond their immediate interests that displeased me so much as a study of the daily papers of Chicago.
Quotes with ARGOT (3)
In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk... I have even had the awkward androgynes, the unsexed dishes of the day of the *tables d'hote* of Montmartre. Like any vulgar follower of fashion, like any member of the herd, I have m…
... the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people of my world, all my unhappy peers, have come to irritate, oppress and sadden me with their noisy and empty chatter, their monstrous and boundless vanity, their even more monstrous egotism, their club gossip... the endless repetition of opinions already formed and judgme…
Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 343 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).